Re: my knee surgery

Melody,
Thank you for the advice. I do think it makes a BIG difference too.
Tricia
----- Original Message ----- From: "Melody " <mhobertm@excite.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:35 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] my knee surgery


Tricia: Those exercises make ALL the difference in the world to
recovery...anytime you mess with a joint it's important to rehab it
properly so it will have as much range of motion as possible once
healing is complete. Glad your surgery went well...sounds like a good
recovery so far.



Melody
Hills, IA zone 5

Work for the Lord: the pay isn't much but the retirement is out of this world!

--- On Sat 09/16, pdickson < pdickson@sbcglobal.net > wrote:
From: pdickson [mailto: pdickson@sbcglobal.net]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:22:42 -0500
Subject: Re: [CHAT] my knee surgery

Ceres,<br>I am at home, my surgery was done in an outpatient clinic on
Thursday <br>morning. I had a drain tube which was full yesterday when
they took the bag <br>off. Did you have that? I am thinking that helped
with getting rid of some <br>of the swelling. I am still swollen but the
PT measured my knee yesterday <br>and it was only 2-3 cm larger than the
good one so not much swelling left.<br>The doctor talked to me before
and my husband after about arthritis in the <br>knee. I have pain in the
good one too but no where near as much as I had in <br>the bad one.<br>I
had a skiing accident over 20 years ago and now it is the one that I am
<br>having all this trouble with. He said it had more play in the
ligaments so <br>that was damaging the cartilage.<br> I am 51, how old
are you... if you don't mind me asking? He gave me some <br>strength
exercises to do yesterday so I better get to doing them. He also
<br>talked to me about using the crutches right and not using

them where I teach <br>myself to walk wrong... he said be sure to swing
my leg all the way through <br>just like I would do if I was walking
normal. I hope some of this makes <br>sense... when I reread it I am not
sure I can understand it.<br>Tricia<br>----- Original Message -----
<br>From: <Cersgarden@aol.com><br>To: <gardenchat@hort.net><br>Sent:
Saturday, September 16, 2006 8:55 AM<br>Subject: Re: [CHAT] my knee
surgery<br><br><br>> Tricia, how fortunate for you to do so well. Are
you in the hospital?<br>> What was your injury? My knee is still swollen
from my July 5 surgery. <br>> I<br>> don't have pain but the exercises
have not buildup the strength in my knee <br>> as I<br>> had before the
problem nor the stride length or speed. In addition <br>> there is<br>>
lots of arthritis in the knee which is I'm sure is no surprise at my
age.<br>> Continue you the speedy recovery.<br>> Ceres<br>><br>>

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